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Nowadays, cars, They have many technological advances and new features that help make our trips safer and more comfortable. In fact, new vehicles are the most well-equipped they've ever been.
Car manufacturers have made efforts to put thein the vehicles many features that customers can enjoy and use to provide the best possible driving experience. However, not all of these new technologies are as popular as others.
That's why, Here we tell you five features of cars that almost no one uses.
One of the most useless car features is social media integration and messaging. Do you really need to use social media while driving? Especially the messaging aspect of Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and any other social media platform. Car manufacturers try to reduce distracted driving by reading your text messages aloud, adding voice commands, and more, but then allow you to receive Facebook notifications on your car's infotainment system.
In real life, gestures are used to greet someone, say goodbye, or even express dismay toward someone in an unkind way. However, in cars, they're completely unnecessary. We believe the idea with gesture control was to prevent drivers from having to touch knobs, buttons, or physical touchscreens. Unfortunately, moving your hand to a specific location requires almost the same level of attention and accomplishes nothing that voice commands can't.
Okay, this isn't a completely useless feature. It obviously serves its purpose of warming or cooling your drinks while they sit in the car's cup holder. While car manufacturers charge us five cents for everything a vehicle offers, inside and out, some people are paying more for this extravagant piece of luxury.
Similar to cup holders, this is something people choose to pay a lot of extra money for. As a result, they're sitting in your car during a road trip, or maybe on a trip to the store, getting a back massage. This is not only a bit overkill, but it's also a bit dangerous. Falling asleep or getting too comfortable while driving is not a good thing.
Finally, engine sound synthesizers are a pretty useless feature. For as long as cars have existed, humans have loved the sound of engines. Unfortunately, that wonderfully mellifluous, sonorous sound is, in essence, the sound of inefficiency. As a result, modern vehicles with better fuel economy (or all-electric models) don't have such good engine sounds. The solution was to create artificial engine sounds that are more pleasing to the ear.
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